Sacrificed the Featherweight!
04-26-2011, 09:24 AM
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That is so very nice for you to do that. I might have one with the scroll face that I might part with. Email me at [email protected] if you are interested and I will check for you. You are a very unselfish sister. Bless you!
04-26-2011, 09:34 AM
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I just lost my sister in September and miss her every day. We total opposites but we could talk for hours. I had lost my other sister in 1999. I am the only girl left. My Sister-in-laws sisters have officialy told my they are now my sisters and I love them for it. Just lost a brother last week unexpectedly> so now I only have four brothers left. Nothing they will ever do will stop me from loveing them. I may not always like them but underneath we are family and any time we are together we put our differeces aside.
04-26-2011, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by hobbykat1955
Your a Good Sister...I'm giving you a pat on your back...
Think of the fun you'll have on the hunt to find your perfect featherweight to call all your own...
Think of the fun you'll have on the hunt to find your perfect featherweight to call all your own...
Blessings! Janice
04-26-2011, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
Originally Posted by Kas
... She is such a wonderful lady and truly cares for others more than herself. I want to be like her when I grow up!
04-26-2011, 11:07 AM
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Good for you. Way more precious than any featherweight is the relationship with your sister, and the joy she has in her memories of sewing on the machine with your mother. Good you gave her that... and I hope you are similarly blessed.
04-26-2011, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by hopetoquilt
I tell my kids all the time that "things are just things and memories are forever." If something disappears, gets stolen or broken or isn't bought, it doesn't matter. It's our memories that we will have forever.
04-26-2011, 11:18 AM
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you might look on eBay for a featherweight as I got 2 of them there one for my daughter and one for me decent prices and great machines it took me awhile to win a bid at an affordable price but worked out great good luck
04-26-2011, 11:26 AM
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Little Sisters - grrr! Don't worry, Karma is a beeotch! My mom always said 'you get what you give' and she'll eventually 'get hers'. It amazes me how selfish and uncaring people can be.
Originally Posted by Kas
Well, I didn't get my Mom's Featherweight. She was going to give it to me, but when I was telling my big sister about it, she asked me, "The little black one?" Yes. Then she said, "Oh! I learned to sew on that machine! I loved sewing so much!" It was obvious she wanted it and had memories of it and Mama. I have to say that my mom had just given a Tiffany lamp that I had wanted for 35 years (and been told all those years was mine) to my little sister who knew it had been promised to me earlier and took it anyway. My big sister wanted the Featherweight but wouldn't say so. I told her I didn't want her to feel what I was feeling and if she wanted it to say so. She finally admitted she would love to have it. I gave it to her joyfully. She had always wanted and loved it, I only found out about it (realized my mom's machine was a Featherweight) a couple of years ago. I can always buy a new one, she can't replace the memories. The search begins! And I am looking for one with the pretty scrolled face, not the straight lines like Mama's.
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